Not exact matches
When I was a junk
bond trader in the 1990s» we referred to anyone
who bought a
bond yielding over 12 % as «a yield hog.»
It was interesting because anybody
who's a global macro
trader and in
bonds.
«It's like a
bond trader from 15 years ago went to sleep and suddenly awoke to make these trades,» one regulator
who later reviewed the transactions remarked to a colleague.
Now a transient place full of hipsters,
bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters
who are the children of
bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.
Many
bonds only have a small number of holders, so it gets easier to guess
who the big
traders might b, thus affecting the market price $ $ Nov 06, 2013
It's the better option for investors
who focus primarily on
bonds, and its tiered pricing model and attractive rates on + $ 1 million margin accounts suggest the company aims to cater to highly active and heavyweight
traders.
Bond market
traders,
who are the most likely to put their money where their forecasts are, are currently wagering on a rate cut in the next year rather than a rate hike.
A good friend of mine
who is employed as a
bond trader told me that in the bottom of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis, they were no bids for 10 - year Ontario
bonds in the market.
Suppose we had seven guys in the room, an economist, a guy from a ratings agency, an actuary, a guy
who does capital structure arbitrage, a derivatives
trader, A CDO manager, and a guy
who does nonlinear dynamic modeling, and we asked them what the spread on a corporate
bond should be.
It was founded by Takafumi Komiyama and Yuzo Kano,
who both previously worked for an investment bank Goldman Sachs in different roles (Komiyama was a developer, Kano was an equity derivatives and convertible
bonds trader).